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Princeton's WordNet

  1. rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, gitnoun

    a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible

    "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'"

Wiktionary

  1. so-and-sonoun

    Some thing or things.

    He will tell you to do so-and-so, but read the instructions first, anyway.

ChatGPT

  1. so-and-so

    So-and-so refers to a person or thing whose name is either unknown, forgotten, or being deliberately avoided or left unsaid. It is often used as a placeholder in conversation when someone cannot remember or does not want to mention a specific name.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of so-and-so in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of so-and-so in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of so-and-so in a Sentence

  1. Several State Department officials:

    As many of you know, we have a lot of them, and so he will be working very hard in filling up those positions.

  2. American Dustin Johnson:

    All of them are good but this one might be the best for sure, i've been working hard on my game and been working hard on me, and so it means a great deal to have some success right out of the gate. It gives me a lot of confidence, too.

  3. Laura Debesa:

    The response that we've had has been so lovely and so huge, we never expected the number of letters that have poured in, there are a couple of patients who have been hospitalized for quite some time... and they ask for a letter each day. A patient we had discharged last week took her letter home with her, she had been so thrilled to receive it.

  4. Steve King:

    I hope to get to a position to endorse but I know from experience that it has to be a conviction. And so I'm working to get to a conviction.

  5. Julie Palmer:

    UK construction has been one of the hardest hit sectors following the Brexit result, the rise in uncertainty will have led to a steep slowdown in investment activity and so, in the short term at least, UK construction will feel some pain.


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